Overview

Here you can find the ABCD XML Schemata. Several minor updates have been done to ABCD 2.06, the ratified TDWG standard, that are backwards compatible and do not require a change in the namespace. Note: While this document is human-readable, RDDL-aware processors may use it to automatically retrieve resources such as different schema versions for validating documents. See http://www.rddl.org for further information.

Application Schemas

ABCD 3.0 Application Schemas are XML Schemas containing a subset of elements of the main ABCD 3.0 XML Schema in different structure to better fit specific use cases.

Notes

Although RDDL-aware processors may automatically detect a schema location, most processors require an explicit location. ABCD instance documents intended for validation should therefore contain the following attributes in the "Datasets" root element: